Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that people with left heart syndrome receive efficient treatment.

Surgical treatment for hypoplastic left heart syndrome is available in Level 1 National Health Service children’s cardiac centres. While the treatment planning for children can include several operations during their lifetime, the exact nature and timing of any further surgery will depend on the child’s progress. Whilst surgery can give a better quality of life, it is not possible to correct the heart abnormality. After surgery the child will receive follow up treatment and have lifelong care with a cardiologist trained in congenital heart diseases.